Definition of "shrub" in Anglais

noun

1. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

verb

1. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.

2. (rare) To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.

noun

1. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.

verb

1. (rare) To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).

verb

1. (ambitransitive, Kenya, slang) To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.

noun

1. (Kenya, slang) A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.